NPP Minority demands Mahama take a stand as OSP crisis deepens
The opposition New Patriotic Party’s Minority in Parliament has thrown down a political gauntlet in the wake of the Accra High Court’s landmark ruling that declared all prosecutions by the Office of the Special Prosecutor null and void, issuing four pointed demands and turning up the heat on President John Mahama to publicly declare where he stands on the embattled anti-corruption body.
Gushegu MP Hassan Tampuli, who serves as Ranking Member on Parliament’s Legal Affairs Committee, delivered the Minority’s position at a press conference, framing the April 15, 2026 ruling as a constitutional crisis that demands both legal and political responses, and fast.
At the top of the Minority’s list is a demand for the OSP to immediately appeal the High Court decision, seek a stay of execution, and push the matter all the way to the Supreme Court. Running alongside that is a call for an expedited hearing of an existing Supreme Court suit filed as J1/3/2026, that directly challenges the OSP’s prosecutorial powers, a case the Minority argues is too consequential to move at the ordinary pace of litigation.
“The Supreme Court question must be resolved definitively and authoritatively by the court that alone has jurisdiction to resolve it,” Tampuli said.
The Minority also wants Parliament to train its scrutiny on the Attorney General’s legal posture in ongoing OSP-related litigation, a demand that signals the opposition’s intent to use legislative oversight as a pressure tool in a battle that has until now played out largely in the courts.
But it is the fourth demand that carries the sharpest political edge. The Minority has called out President Mahama directly, accusing him of running an inconsistent position on the OSP and insisting that the time for ambiguity is over.
“We call on President Mahama to come clean with Ghanaians… The President must choose: does he stand with the OSP, or does he stand with the campaign to destroy it?” Tampuli stated.
The ruling has sharpened an already tense fault line between the governing NDC and the NPP, with the opposition framing recent legal and legislative developments around the OSP as a coordinated effort to dismantle anti-corruption safeguards that were hard-won. For a government that came to power on the strength of its ORAL promise, the question of where it truly stands on independent corruption prosecution is becoming harder to sidestep.
Mahama has so far offered no direct public response to the High Court ruling.
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